Sweet blue hair

This has been on my mind lately.
This and migration. Sea turtles swim thousands of miles back to the beaches on which they were born in order to lay their own eggs.

Sea lions eat stones, and no one knows why. 
Maybe they like it because it's like hard candy but without the calories.

Realms of the Unreal

Henry Darger independently wrote and illustrated three volumes about the "Vivian girls," who are fighting an endless battle against child-enslavers. The illustrations are watercolor paintings and collages like this one; for the most part they're beautiful, but some are disturbing, showing naked children being tortured or killed.

You've gotta know when to hold 'em

I love her head resting on the bear's head.

Today is one of the warmest days so far this year, and so I'm sitting outside. The sun is out and making it difficult to see my computer screen.

Home

In Colorado I can see the grass and sun, and there are mountains like this

I ate at my favorite Denver restaurant yesterday. Biscuits and gravy and scrambled tofu.

Eeee hooo, eeee hooo

I found this picture book (represented online) today via Fine Little Day. I'm not a mother, but I imagine that it would be exactly as lovely as this.

Today I can hear birds chirping to one another. It is still only February, but spring is near.

Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta

I recently read this epic poem for my art history class. I loved Lord Aratta "wading around in words as in donkey feed."

This is Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love and war. She was married to both Enmerkar and Aratta, but she preferred Enmerkar (who, according to the poem, invented the written letter).

Science

I work in my college library dividing the mail and distributing it to various library departments. My favorite thing is getting to see all of the different journals, magazines, and newspapers coming in. Recently I've admired the covers of JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association). The type, images, and basic design are all beautiful.

I looked at onion root tip cells in varying stages of mitosis today. Not being a science person (and not having had a decent science class since middle school) I haven't often experienced the awe of seeing something in real life that I've been studying in a book.